Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Dominant Pitching Leads Seattle Mariners to SATISFYING Series Win Over Toronto Blue Jays

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

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Well, it's not exactly revenge, but it still felt good. We'll talk about the Mariners series win over the Blue Jays coming up. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, sailors. Hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend. The Marin certainly did.

My name is tighting is awesome. I'm joined as always by my co-coes Colby Patnode. You're getting this show tonight because Colby's traveling tomorrow. We'll be back on Tuesday with a mailman. bag episode, but tonight, we're going to talk about something that makes me personally very, very happy. That would be the Mariners smoking the Toronto Blue Jays. So nice. After losing 2-0 on Friday, the Mariners win Saturday and Sunday's games by a combined score of 15 to nothing.

This absolute dominance by the Mariners this weekend. The Blue Jays didn't score a single run for the final 24 innings of this. this series. Just excellent pitching across the board by the Marrars. And we also saw maybe their most complete win of the season yesterday in that 11 to nothing beat down on the 4th of July. That completes a five and one homestand for the Marys, which is massive for them, obviously, because they're heading back to the East Coast to play two of the hottest teams of baseball and the Marlins and the Ray's coming up here before the All-Star break, Colby. Yeah. I mean, we talked about this, you know, before the homestand started. Like, man, it's, it's,

you kind of look at what they're up against the East Coast road trip against the hottest team of baseball and the best team in the American League back to back. They really, you know, I think we said they really should go five and one on this homestand, but they need to go at least four and two. They went five and one. You know, in the one game they lost, you know, C's just shoved and you had terrible at bats. And it was, you know, back to back games where your offense didn't show up. I mean, thankfully you won one of those games somehow. You did beat the Angels 1 to nothing. But yeah, your offense didn't show up for a couple of games in a row,

and that happens, especially to this team right now. And, you know, they're another injury bug since we last talked, Julio with a random injury that landed him on the concussion aisle. So, you know, this team continues to not quite be able to get everybody back in the lineup together. I think it was Divish or maybe it was Goldie said that Julio Cowell. Donovan and Randy have been in the lineup together, 17 games this year. Like we're almost, what, 90 games into the year? Are we at 90?

I think we're at 90 now. 91, I think. Yeah. So that's crazy. But anyways, they did find a way to win a one-nothing game. And then the offense unfortunately carried over their performance to Friday. And Cecil's good on top of it. So that really didn't help your odds.

But then they bounced back in a big way. And they explode and they hit almost it for the home run cycle. on Saturday, which was great to see. Obviously, you know, we talked about how this team, they need to hit home runs to sustain offense at Team Mobile Park. They had three yesterday, only one today. But it was a two-run homer and it turned out to be all you needed in this game. So, yeah, they hit some home runs.

They played pretty clean defense. No major defensive miscues, an error. I think Cole Young had an error, but for the most part. GP had an error on Friday. Oh, yeah, throwing air. Yep. So again, not perfect, but for the Mariners, pretty decent defense in this homestand.

But the story of this one was certainly the pitching. It was electric. I mean, Luis Castillo gave up two on Friday. And that was by far the worst start of the homestand. Yeah. Like that, that's, you know, that's some fancy pitching right there. Yeah. Just an incredible job by all three starters.

Castillo, Logan Gilbert, Emerson, Hancock. And this starting rotation now, aside from a, few hiccups here and there really starting to look like 2023, 24. Just be nice if we could get something close to the 2025 offense to pair along with it. And then we'd be really cooking here. I mean, yeah, it's crazy. Like if they had any kind of consistency with their offense, with the pitching that they've gotten, really for the better part of the last month or so, I mean, a couple hiccups here

and there. But like, for the most part, they've been very, very good. since Bryce returned. And so if they just had any kind of consistent offense, they'd probably be the best team in the American League. I mean, the Yankees are cratering right now. The Ray's good team. Obviously, we're 90-some-odd games into this thing.

They're not going to collapse. They're obviously a bit of a threat there. But yeah, the Mariners, talent-wise and all of that, if they could just find some consistent offense, they're probably going to become the favorite in the American League. So, you know, we'll see if they add anybody who they add, if they do add a bat, if they ever get healthy. There's a bunch of what ifs attached to that. But yeah, the offense.

Yeah. And, you know, obviously big three run homer on Saturday. And he had a nice hit today against, was it little or is the other left? Lou Hardy. Yeah. So, you know, we'll see. of that leads to anything. He's got to put it together for a couple weeks before we believe that he's back or anything like that. But yeah, or Julio getting back healthy will help. But Cal, far and away, he is the biggest X factor here. And you don't need 2025 Cal. You really don't. If you get second half, if you get for the second half of the year, if you get 2024 Cal Raleigh for the entire second half of the year, you're probably the best lineup in the American League. Like that's how big of a difference it is between 2026 Cow Raleigh and just,

average Cal Raleigh. Like it's such a massive gap there. So yeah, the offense, we'll see. But definitely some good signs this weekend is, you know, we talked about this team has to hit home runs. And they, the ones they hit were not cheap. Let's put it that way.

Yeah, this weekend was the proof of concept, right? It showed you exactly what the upside of this club is and what this club can ultimately be against obviously a team that has greatly struggled. and is dealing with injuries of its own this year and all that, but still very talented club, very scrappy club. A lot of the same guys that we saw in October last year. And it was good to see the Marys handle business and just dominate really on both ends

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the show, we have a Patreon. It's called Control of the Zone. Finally, we talk, Marriss, Seahawks, all the good stuff. For more information, go to Patreon.com, forward slash control of zone. Link in the description of this episode. So yesterday, yesterday's starter and today's starter, Logan Gilbert and Emerson Hancock, we're supposed to piggyback one another. And then the Mariners, for the second week in a row,

bailed on that idea at the last minute at least you know when we heard it maybe they had decided that a little while beforehand but it was pretty much at the last minute for us though that we found out that they were not going to deploy the piggyback once again after you know again there was this whole thing about trimp blanks stayed up for 48 straight hours or whatever putting these plants together then everyone unanimously decided on going with the piggyback plan whatever you know, we had heard so much about that. And then they did it once and never again. But, you know, it worked out for the best because, again, you know, Logan Gilbert

dominates yesterday. Emerson Hancock dominates today. Seven innings of scoreless ball from Hancock today. Seven and a third scoreless innings from Gilbert yesterday. It's both of those guys incredibly, incredibly impressive. Yeah, it started yesterday with Logan. He was simply incredible for a, minute there kind of looked like maybe he was going to have his second complete game shutout on the

on the fourth of July. Very fitting to do it against Canada. But yeah, Gilbert was just, and really Hancock today too, just fastballs, just so many fastballs. Logan yesterday was 64% fastball. His yearly average is under 40. So like he was just going right after them. And by the way, 34% whiff rate on the fastball, along with a 40% percent. called strike plus whiff. Like he was just throwing the fastball and daring the blue jays to hit it and they couldn't. They couldn't do anything with it. And, you know, it's kind of a continuation of what we've seen from Logan since really

Cowell's come back, maybe even a start or two before that. He's really become fastball slider. And he still has the split, but he's throwing it less and less and less. He only threw it seven times yesterday, sorry, six times yesterday. Didn't get a whiff on it. Didn't get a called strike on it. And he still dominated. without what has been his best pitch, his go-to pitch over the last year plus.

It's fastball slider now for Logan. And obviously that's, you know, quite a change from where we've been. And Logan's fastball over the last couple years hasn't been really all that good. And yet he's found some extra VLO with it. He's got some giddy up to it. And he's just challenging guys with it. He's getting ahead and he's getting quick outs like we've talked about. He was able to go deep in yesterday's game.

I think he's gone six plus innings now and eight of his. last 10 starts. And one of the starts that he didn't go six, he went five and two-third. So, yeah, it's been a really good run for Logan. And then, you know, Emerson today just went right after guys two with the fastball. And his Velo was actually kind of mediocre today. We didn't see 98 from Hancock. We saw a lot of 94, 95 from him, some 96, but we didn't see 98.

We didn't see a lot of 97. I think maybe, yeah, no registered pitches over 96.1 miles an hour is what it looks like here. But still, it was fastball heavy through 92 pitches, 44, four seamers, 192 seamers. And then Cutter, you want to count that as a fastball or not, you should, it is a fastball. He actually threw 10 of those. So when you look at his overall pitch usage, 92 pitches, all but. But 19 of them were some form of the fastball. So the Mariners starting rotation is just going right after guys.

It's a very fastball heavy approach. And they're trusting it. They're getting whiffs on it. Hancock today at 14 whiffs on the day. And a 27% whiff rate on his four seamer. That's pretty darn good, especially when you back it up with, you know, four whiffs total on seven swings on two unique breaking balls, the sweeper and a curf ball. that he's dropped in a little bit more and more. So 32% called strike plus whiff,

just really aggressive today. Really only had the one inning where he walked two guys, but he was able to get a double play ball in between them. That was really it. He was in cruise control mode. And again, the Blue Jays lineup, not what it was last year. Vlad really having a tough, tough year.

And obviously he's, you know, the straw that stirs the drink and Springer's on the paternity list. And he hasn't had a good year this year anyways, blah, blah, blah. But still, these are two guys, or this is a team full of guys who make a lot of contact. They put the ball in play. And the Mariners starters just went right after them with fastball, has got more than their fair share of whiffs and really put these guys on their heels.

And it set them up for success over the last two days. And, you know, to a little bit of lesser extent, Louise too. Luis really had the one bad inning on Friday. And, you know, Colt Emerson was able to bail him out of that inning to stop the bleeding. And then he locked it in after that. So just really impressive. impressive outings from these three guys. Maybe not huge strikeout numbers, but plenty of swing and miss.

And man, they were really aggressive with this team in the middle of the zone. We talk about, you know, control the zone and all that. That's what it looks like right there. Absolutely. Yeah, I just love the approach from all these guys, just going right after these dudes, just attacking them. And, you know, for Hancock, I mean, this was probably the best we've seen from him since that start he had against the Mets, but over a month ago.

you know and like we had talked about too over the last couple of months now really for Hancock maybe six, seven weeks or so. The strikeouts just haven't really been there for the most part. He had six strikeouts, you know, in his last start, six strikeouts in the bad start that he had against the Red Sox

but then two strikeouts, three strikeouts, seven strikeouts, that was against the bets that start that I mentioned. Three strikeouts, four strikeouts, four strikeouts. You know, that's all. all since the 14 strikeout game, which is clearly the outlier. But still,

he was getting more strikeouts early on in the season, and then it was starting to go away. And obviously, you know, the sweeper is kind of faded for him and all that. We talked about it. It felt like he was teetering on this, like,

huge blow-up outing. So, yeah. But, you know, over the last, again, really since that,

that Mets started, it just kind of feels like he's been battling, right? And he's still been able to give the Mariners a chance to win more often than not over that stretch. But this looked like the Emerson Hancock that we saw kind of in the first, you know, four or five weeks of the season. Much closer. And you know, you wonder maybe the six man rotation is, is a part of that. He's getting that extra day's rest. And, you know,

we don't know why the Mariners jump to the six man. They've talked about some guys needing a little bit of rest here and there. And Hancock definitely seems like one of those guys who that could be in reference to we we it's not the Hancock's not durable or anything like that or that he's not in good shape or he doesn't have the whatever it's just this guy hasn't thrown 200 innings you know it's it's not like he's you know been in a big league rotation this long ever like when he has been in the marriage rotation it's been for a month at a time not you know three months at a time so it's just different and now he's seven and two thirds over his career high you know his previous career high and then he's pitched at the major league level specifically uh he's getting close

to his career high and just professional innings in a season. So, you know, you definitely want to keep an eye on him in that regard. And so we'll see how the mayor is kind of handle that over the course of the year. We've talked about that. But, yeah, it was good to see him, especially

bounce back. I mean, bounce back is kind of a strong year because he's been fine for the most part over the last month or so. But like, again, it just kind of felt like he was just kind of grinding out these starts. It just wasn't as fluid. as it had been at the start of the year for him.

Number four, good number five type of stuff over the last month. And today it was more back to that like number three kind of bulldog type of pitcher. Yeah. So really good stuff from him. Really good stuff from Logan. And also like, yeah, they lost. But like Luis Castillo was really good on Friday as well. Castillo's been very, very good since the start before. the piggyback started to start in Houston.

He's been very good since then. Again, not perfect. He's had a blow up in one of the piggyback rolls against the, not the white socks, the other one. It was the first one that they went back to the piggyback. Yeah.

Yeah. He gave up like five. And even then like a bunch of soft contact, there was an error in there like whatever. It wasn't good though. I think that might have been the Red Sox. Yeah, it was. I'm not saying he was good,

but he wasn't as bad. as the final line would indicate. But he's been really good since, you know, the middle of May, basically. And A, that's good because, hey, you have another good pitcher. That's never a bad thing. But also, there is any kind of inclination to trade him this summer.

Obviously, you need him to not only remain stretched out, but you also need him to produce. And he has done that. You're going to try and get a team to take his, you know, any of his $24 million he's owed next year and whatever he's got left this year, you're going to even pitch well and he has been. And we'll see where the Mariners are at in a couple weeks for all we know. They're going to really need Luis Castillo down the stretch because, you know,

X is on the IL for six weeks with an oblique or whatever. Like we don't know how this is going to play itself out, but Luis is a legitimate major league starter. We go through this every year with him. He's going to go through a five, six game stretch where it's just like the end is here, the end is here. But this dude battles. He battles.

And even when he doesn't have his best stuff, he will find a way to keep you in a ball game. more often than not. And so if that's your worst pitcher, you're in really good shape. And Luis Castillo has bounced back in a big, big way over the last, really almost two full months now. A little bit of a short show today. But again, we'll be back on Tuesday with the mailbag.

We probably get some questions about the all-star selections and all that stuff. You know, Randy being the only mariner getting in, Logan Price, etc., not getting in. probably piggyback questions, all that good stuff. So we didn't talk about it today. We'll probably get to it on Tuesday. The tweet is up now. So if you're on Twitter, you can leave us a question over there.

Also got a couple submissions in our Discord. So if you're part of that, you can add there and ask us some questions too. I think we've gotten three or four of those in the last week since we lasted a mailbag. So maybe there's something we pull out of there. Who knows? But either way, send your questions again, we're probably going to talk about All-Stars and the piggyback. ways. So maybe think, you know, something else. I mean, someone's probably already asked about it. I don't know. I don't know. But ask,

ask away. But, you know, maybe check beforehand just to see if it's been asked already. I know the piggyback thing's been asked. I'm not sure about the All-Stars. But we're probably going to talk about them, whether it gets asked to or not because content, baby, content. That's right. And then we'll be recording that on Tuesday and dropping that on Tuesday so you do have a little while here to still ask you questions. Yeah. So yeah. All right.

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